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* direct »Letter 264 — Darwin, S. E. to Darwin, C. R., [24] Nov 1834
The Langtons will go to Madeira for the winter. E. A. Darwin and the Hensleigh Wedgwoods enjoyed a stay in Cambridge, where they saw Professors Whewell and Sedgwick. Colonel Leighton has died. The King has dismissed the Whig Ministry; Wellington is Premier, and the country is in a strange state.
* direct »Letter 596 — Jenyns, Leonard to Darwin, C. R., [30? Mar 1841]
LJ has had a letter from R. T. Lowe in Madeira who thinks Scorpaena histrio, a species from Galapagos described in no. 1 [of Fish], is the same as the one in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. LJ does not think it is possible.
* direct »Letter 1554 — Darwin, C. R. to Henslow, J. S., 20 Feb [1854]
Honoured and gratified by the dedication [to CD] of Hooker's book [Himalayan journals]. News of Lyell from Madeira.
* direct »Letter 1556 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 1 Mar [1854]
Thanks JDH for dedication of Himalayan journals. CD praises the work and suggests stylistic revisions. Lyell's remarks on lava beds in letter from Madeira are not original – they refer exclusively to Élie de Beaumont's data.
* direct »Letter 1578a — Darwin, C. R. to unidentified (Unidentified), 16 Aug [1854–8]
Should like to examine the correspondent's Madeira cirripedes but is too much occupied with other subjects of natural history.
* direct »Letter 1593 — Lowe, R. T. to Darwin, C. R., 19 Sept 1854
The land shells, both fossil and recent, of Madeira and Porto Santo have features peculiar to them, so RTL would have no difficulty in identifying them.
* direct »Letter 1643 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 7 Mar [1855]
Latitude overrules everything in distribution. Alpine distributions are like insular. Tabulating proportions. T. V. Wollaston's Madeira insects: many flightless, thus not blown to sea. TVW's insects do not confirm Forbes's Atlantis.
* direct »Letter 1644 — Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, C. R., [before 17 Mar 1855]
JDH criticises C. J. F. Bunbury's paper on Madeira [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 1 (1857): 1–35]. Absence of Ophrys on Madeira suggests to JDH a sequence in creation of groups. Why are flightless insects common in desert?Australian endemism.
* direct »Letter 1719 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 18 [July 1855]
Has read a paper, presumably by JDH, using the Madeiran flora to argue against Forbes's doctrine. JDH asked how far CD will go in attributing common descent; he intends to show "the facts & arguments for & against the common descent of species of same genus; & then show how far the same arguments tell for or against forms, more & more widely different".
* direct »Letter 1806 — Wollaston, T. V. to Darwin, C. R., [Feb 1856]
Sends Madeira specimens, including frogs recently introduced into the island, and flourishing.